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Seeing that photo of Steve giving the finger to Big Blue makes me yearn for the old days when Apple was David pitting themselves against the Goliaths of the world and trying to break their hold on the status quo of the computing world. It was such an exciting time when so many things were coming together to accelerate the development of computing. Man, we take so much for granted now.

So much has changed now, that Apple has become the Goliath. I am immensely impressed that they seem to have held on to so many of their values that Steve pioneered in the early days, despite their size now.

He really did so much to advance technology and make it elegant and simple to use. That's the only thing I think Apple seems to be loosing in a significant way - is their famed ease of use and simplicity. Perhaps also their status as Mavericks daring to think different. They still do have a bit of that though.

I sometimes wish I could revisit those times. I'm probably forgetting all the crap we had to deal with (SCSI termination anyone?! Uh!)

Go Tim...

I feel sorry for the customers, and I hope no-one gets hurt. However, I have to admit to feeling some satisfaction to seeing Samsung fail so badly like this. Yes, Apple fail too but Samsung deserves some bad karma after all the bad practices they are guilty of.

If you do a Google search for this news you'll notice certain news sites are not using the word 'exploding' (or variants) in their headlines (The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Guardian, Business Insider...)

I read one in particular (Daily Express, UK) that stated early on that it's a "phenomenal smartphone" and a "fabulous device". This seems a bit strange for such a dangerous problem.

Could this be a sign of their pro-Samsung bias? If it was Apple you can be sure they would use the word 'exploding' with glee!

You're exploding it wrong!